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Robert Quine

"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."

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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."

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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Asa Don Brown

"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."

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Asa Don Brown

"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."

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Asa Don Brown

"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."

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"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
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"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
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"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
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"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
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"The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with."
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"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
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"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
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